The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 47
‘“If I were sure of that,” hesitated the donkey.
Who acts: hare, I · What happens: be, hesitate · To what, where: donkey
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 3 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 sure | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sure | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 11 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 donkey | det |
| 13 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hesitated | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the hare = hare | of that; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hesitate | past | I not said here | the donkey | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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